'Him. Adric. And she dug him out. An' then he told her how he ended up there,
'cause of this little girl who keeps wedgieing him, an' spitballing him, an'
just basically doin' Bad Things to him, like buryin' him in the sandpit.'

'O-kay...'

'So Suzie asks /why/ she's doing this to him, an' Adric says he doesn't know,
she's been doin' this ever since he first got here.'

'So Suzie smokejumps them out of there, an' we hold them off for a while by
pointing Nyssa - that's the Bad Girl - an' Billy at each other. An' Suzie says,
hey, why don'cha meet my friends, an' brings them along to meet us.'

'Go on.'

'And they 'xplain what's going on, an' this looks like a job for the Justice
Toddlers if ever there /was/ one, an' we ask the Main Tot if he can help out,
cause no-one knows how to frag better than the Main Tot-'

'Got /that/ right.'

'An' he says yes. So that's sorta what's been going on.'

'Uh-huh.'

The little brown-haired boy, currently in a blue T-shirt, with a broken bell
symbol on the front, and training pants, considered this.

'Seriously?'

'Uh-huh.'

'Sure?'

'Well, you /did/ ask.'

'I know.' the boy said. 'That's what worries me.'

He tried to stretch his fingers.

'Ow. /Still/ don't have the hang of this. 'Kay... plan of action.'

'/Plan of action?/'

'Course. This /is/ a job for the Justice Toddlers, right?'

'Um... right?'

'Okay. Now, what we /could/ do is try changing the way you look, make you look
all smart and dashing, sorta thing-'

'We /could/?' Adric said.

'Of course we could.' the boy said. 'But we're not gonna. Cause I'm guessing you
don't wanna change who you are simply to stop this Bad Girl pounding on you.'

'Well-' Adric began.

'Course he doesn't!' Ukyou huffed.

'Then in /that/ case, I've got just the thing.'

Adric frowned. 'Umm... who are you again?'

'Snappy. Snappy Carr.' the boy said.

'/Snappy/?!' Adric echoed.

Snappy shrugged. 'Hey, /I/ like it.'

'Uh-/huh/...' the Main Tot said. 'Oh yeah, this explains a lot.'

Snappy grinned. 'Trust me, kid. With a name like Snappy, sooner or later,
you're gonna get wedgied. An' since I wasn't gonna change it, I hadta come up
with 'nother way to deal with it.'

'You did?'

'Mm-hmm.'

'What'd you do?' Adric asked curiously.

Snappy's grin grew wider. 'Goes a /little/ something like this...'

---

'Is it too late to go back to the "changing who I am" plan? I liked the
"changing who I am" plan.' Adric babbled.

'This should work.' Snappy reassured him.

'It's that "should" that scares me.' Adric muttered.

'Scares me too.'

'It /does/?'

'Yeah,' Snappy said. 'We're taking a risk. We're taking a whacking great risk
that she's just gonna wedgie you again.'

'Well, /duh/.'

'Course, that's a risk /whatever/ you do, isn't it?'

'Um...' Adric said.

'Someone lays into her, she takes it out on someone else. We change the way you
look, she laughs and wedgies you. We hide you, she finds and wedgies you. You
run, she finds and wedgies you.'

'I get it, I get it.'

'What we're trying to do is make sure you /don't/ get it.' Snappy pointed out.

'So, when we see something new, we see just how many fun things we can do with
it. And it lasts even /longer/ if they can actually react to it.'

'Um.' Nyssa said. 'Yeah.'

'Like having a toy all to yourself. An' you don't care if others think it looks
scruffy, or messy, or something you don't wanna play with. /You/ know how to
play with it, and make it fun.'

'Yeah... Yeah..' Nyssa said, her eyes lost in a vision only she could see.

'Your very own private, personal toy. /Yours/. And if someone tries to take it
away...'

'THEY CAN'T HAVE IT!' Nyssa yelled.

Snappy shrugged. 'Course not. It /is/ yours, after all. But what'd happen if the
Adults threw it out?'

'They wouldn't-' Nyssa hesitated.

For a moment, she looked almost lost.

'If it's worn out, or broken, they would.' Snappy said. 'Adults are like that.
Course, you /could/ find a new toy. Won't be quite the same, natch. Different.
Make you feel differently. But you don't /wanna/ feel differently, you want that
old feeling back... and you can't have it.'

'Hey, it's not like anyone but the Doc goes in there...' Adric said defensively.
'Besides, the Doc didn't want anything to happen to anyone who went in there.
An' you don't tell toddlers to keep out of somewhere...'

'You tell them /not/ to keep out.' Kon completed. 'Tell toddlers like that
somethin', and they'll do exactly the opposite.'

Cass and Ciss /looked/ at him.

'What? /What?/'

---

Slo-bo patted the Tricycle on the bumper. 'Stay, 'kay?'

Cass frowned. 'Okay... Adric, are you sure about this?'

Adric nodded.

Suzie looked up at the large cardboard box, painted blue, with "Police Box -
Don't Keep Out"stencilled across it.

Then she patted it.

Off their looks, she explained ~She wanted to be patted.~

'O-kay...' Kon said.

Adric lifted up a flap. 'Come on. More than enough room for everyone.'

The Justice Toddlers looked at each other. Then, one by one, they crawled
inside.

'Ucchan...?'

'Yes, Adchan?'

'Do you... Do you think I should have warned them?'

'What about?'

'Um... not to touch anything.'

'Uh-huh. And what were you saying about telling toddlers /not/ to do something?'